Chap. 479.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved May 9,
1903, entitled an act to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire land neces-
sary to construct a channel for diverting the freshet water from the Appomat-
tox river at Petersburg, Virginia, so as to improve the harbor and channel of
said river.

Approved December 18, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act approved May ninth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled
an act to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire land necessary to
construct a channel for diverting the freshet water from the Appomattox
river at Petersburg, Virginia, so as to improve the harbor and channel of
said river, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$2. The said city shall have power, for the purpose of diverting the
freshet water from said river into the channel so to be constructed, to
erect and perpetually maintain a dam of such character, height, and
width, as it may deem proper, across said river at such a point as it may
select between Pocahontas bridge, at the head of navigation, and the
bridge of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company, and with the con-
sent of the said city the said dam may be erected and perpeiually main-
tained by the United States government; but the title to said dam when
erected and the land thereby made shall remain and be in the said city or
its assigns or grantees, with the right and power in said city or such as-
signs or grantees to perpetually remain the same.

2. By reason of the fact that the United States government is now
ready to commence the work of said improvement, an emergency exists.
and therefore this act shall be in foree from its passage.